The "global economy" is a mirage. 5/6 of the world population, if not more, are illiterate and uncultured barbarians. Striving for socialism and destruction of complex systems, as well as the extermination of superior peoples, is their natural condition.
Buying them off with trinkets has gone as far as it can go.
Even the Romans could not pull this off for more than a few hundred years, and that on a much smaller scale.
What should be done?